voicethread app and pc how-to

1. VoiceThread is an app,
and a website
• Billerica Public Schools has
accounts for all teachers and
students
• Teachers logon (ask Crissy for
login info)
• Use it from your PC with the free
app
• Use it from the website
(voicethread.com)
• Ipad or ipod App logo looks like
this:

2. First thing in the app,
you login

3. Click Create
Bottom of screen, first button is Create Looks like a pencil

4. When you tap the green plus, you can choose
Library to pick a photo you already took, or camera
to take one. After getting the picture, tap the green
plus to get another or tap Comment to start
recording your Voicethread.

5. See the microphone icon in the middle bottom?
Tap that to begin recording. Full list of steps on
next page.

6. Steps to Voicethread
recording
• Click the green plus!
• Then you get to choose Library for a photo you already
have, or Camera to take a photo
• Then you take the photo or click the photo.
• If you only want one photo, Move on to comment.
Otherwise repeat the steps, starting with the green
plus
• Tap Comment to record your voice, then tap
microphone pic
• You get a 4,3,2,1 and you start speaking about the
photo!
• When you are finished tap the red circle to stop
recording. Then it plays back to you.
• Either re-record, or hit Save
• Hit the plus sign inside the talk bubble to add another
comment.
• Hit the envelope to email it to someone from the ipad.
• The X in the top left corner closes that particular
Voicethread Edit screen, and then you can move on to
make another, or use a different app.

7. Voicethread on the PC
• Go to Voicethread.com
• Click Create or Login (You will be
forced to login if you click Create
first.)
• Your username and password are
attainable from Dede or Crissy.
• Click Upload

8. Uploading
• Choose My
Computer to get
a photo from
your computer,
or My Webcam
to use the
camera on your
pc, or URL to get
a photo on a
website

9. This is the Pictures folder on a Mac, and yours
will look slightly different on a PC but when you
click the picture, you then click Open
(bottom left).

10. Recording the
voicethread…
1. Click the comment button next (on left side, #2).
2. You start speaking about the photo!
3. When you are finished click “stop recording” to stop
recording. Then it plays back to you.
4. Either re-record, record more, or hit Save
5. Hit the plus sign inside the talk bubble to add another
comment.
6. Hit the envelope to email it to someone from the ipad.
7. The X in the top left corner closes that particular
Voicethread Edit screen, and then you can move on to make
another, or use a different app.

11. You can copy the link and post
it, or send it via email, or click
Embed (to put it on your
Edline page.)

12. This is what embed code
looks like. You click “copy
this” on right.

13. In Edline, Click Add
Document, and then click
HTML button

14. Paste in HTML window, with Ctrl-V, then click
Update in the bottom-right corner. Bottom pic
shows finished look of it.

15. Back in Voicethread, Click
MyVoice to see your
collection.